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About the Role
Lambda is seeking a Workday Payroll, Time tracking & Absence Lead to own these modules end-to-end, from implementation design through go-live and into steady-state operations. This is a hands-on configuration role for an expert in Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence, comfortable with compliance and ensuring accurate calculations.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the functional lead for Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence in our Workday implementation: drive design sessions, own configuration decisions, build and test the tenant alongside our implementation partner, and sign off on readiness for cutover, parallel testing, and hypercare.
- Configure and maintain Workday Payroll for US & Canada employees: pay groups, earnings and deductions, pay component groups, federal, state, and local tax setup, garnishments, payroll accounting, and period-end and year-end processing (W-2s, quarterly filings) with our tax filing provider.
- Design and operate the flow between Workday and our international payroll providers (Workday Global Payroll Connect or PECI/PICOF-based integrations): payroll input files, results return, GL posting, and reconciliation for each country we operate in.
- Configure Time Tracking for hourly and non-exempt populations, including work schedules, time entry codes, time calculations (overtime, meal and rest break compliance, shift differentials), approvals, and state-specific rules.
- Build and maintain Absence plans across US and international populations: flexible PTO, sick leave accruals by jurisdiction, statutory leave, and leave-of-absence types with the right eligibility, accrual, carryover, and payout rules.
- Own the payroll-adjacent integration footprint (benefits carriers, 401k, tax filing, equity compensation, GL to NetSuite) and the data validation that keeps Workday, payroll results, and the general ledger in agreement.
- Partner with Payroll Operations and Accounting on every payroll cycle: retro calculations, off-cycle payments, pre- and post-payroll audits, and root-cause analysis when results don't match expectations.
- Design payroll processes and Workday security so they satisfy SOX ITGC and payroll control requirements: segregation of duties, approval workflows, audit trails, and evidence capture. Support internal and external audit requests.
- Stay current on Workday's semi-annual releases, assess impact on Payroll, Time tracking, and Absence, run regression testing, and adopt new functionality that removes manual work.
- Write the documentation, train HR, managers, and Payroll on how these modules work, and build the reports and dashboards that let the business self-serve.
Requirements
- 10+ years in HRIS or payroll systems, with at least 6+ years hands-on configuring Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence.
- Taken at least one Workday Payroll implementation live as the functional lead, ideally with Time Tracking and Absence in the same phase.
- Fluent in payroll business processes, the calculation engine (calculated fields, pay component logic, custom reports), tax configuration, retro processing, and payroll accounting.
- Have run or integrated international payroll through Workday, whether via Global Payroll Connect partners or custom integrations, and understand the data, timing, and reconciliation challenges that come with multiple countries and providers.
- Know US payroll fundamentals cold: multi-state taxation, FLSA, wage and hour rules (especially California), garnishments, imputed income, equity compensation and RSU withholding, and year-end.
- Operated in a SOX or audit-facing environment and understand why segregation of duties, approvals, and evidence matter in payroll.
- Test thoroughly, document what you build, and never move a payroll change into production without a parallel run or reconciliation behind it.
- Comfortable translating between Payroll, People, Accounting, and Engineering.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and velocity at a pre-IPO company.
- An enthusiastic, go-for-it attitude. When something looks off in a payroll result, you can't leave it alone until you find the root cause.
Skills
- Workday Payroll
- Workday Time Tracking
- Workday Absence
- Workday Global Payroll Connect
- Workday integrations
- US payroll fundamentals
- Multi-state taxation
- FLSA
- Wage and hour rules
- Garnishments
- Imputed income
- Equity compensation
- RSU withholding
- Year-end processing
- SOX ITGC
- Payroll control requirements
- Segregation of duties
- Approval workflows
- Audit trails
- Evidence capture
- Workday releases
- Regression testing
- Documentation
- Reporting
- Dashboards
- HCM
- Benefits configuration
- Compensation configuration
- Rippling
- NetSuite
- Okta
- Lumos
- Workato
- BigQuery
- IPO readiness
- AI tooling
Location
- San Francisco, CA
- San Jose, CA
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 10+ years in HRIS or payroll systems
- 6+ years hands-on configuring Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence
Education Level
- Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, or Absence certification (or equivalent partner experience) strongly preferred.
- Workday Pro certifications in Payroll, Time Tracking, Absence, or Integrations.
Salary/Compensations
- The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
Benefits
- Generous cash & equity compensation
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
- 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
- Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
About the Company
- Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers.
- Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers.
- Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence.
- Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast.
- We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG.
- Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers.
Equal Opportunity
- Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer.
- Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.